nowcasting/helpers/ordered_easydict.py

from collections import OrderedDict


class OrderedEasyDict(OrderedDict):
    """Using OrderedDict for the `easydict` package
    See Also https://pypi.python.org/pypi/easydict/
    """
    def __init__(self, d=None, **kwargs):
        super(OrderedEasyDict, self).__init__()
        if d is None:
            d = OrderedDict()
        if kwargs:
            d.update(**kwargs)
        for k, v in d.items():
            setattr(self, k, v)
        # Class attributes
        for k in self.__class__.__dict__.keys():
            if not (k.startswith('__') and k.endswith('__')):
                setattr(self, k, getattr(self, k))

    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
        # special handling of self.__root and self.__map
        if name.startswith('_') and (name.endswith('__root') or name.endswith('__map')):
            super(OrderedEasyDict, self).__setattr__(name, value)
        else:
            if isinstance(value, (list, tuple)):
                value = [self.__class__(x)
                         if isinstance(x, dict) else x for x in value]
            else:
                value = self.__class__(value) if isinstance(value, dict) else value
            super(OrderedEasyDict, self).__setattr__(name, value)
            super(OrderedEasyDict, self).__setitem__(name, value)

    __setitem__ = __setattr__

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import doctest
    doctest.testmod()